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A/V Geek Skip |
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September 01, 2004 02:47:15pm |
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prelinger
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Re: Film Strip collections |
At first, most of the filmstrips I'll be digitizing have no soundtrack.
I've thought about different formats and their pros and cons.
I'd like to have a format where each file can be easily viewed as a slideshow and that folks can extract the images from the file for their own use.
Here's my thoughts:
A video file format such as (MPEG2, QT) would have large files and extra compression of the images. It also wouldn't be easy to extract the images.
Flash would have smaller files as an option, but again it wouldn't be easy to extract the images.
A directory of loose jpegs or tiffs would
I'm favoring Powerpoint (although I'm not a big fan of Microsoft) because the files aren't so big, lots of people can view Powerpoint files (including free options), the files can be edited and searchable via most search engines.
I'm open to some suggestions.
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gulag picture radio |
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September 02, 2004 05:35:13am |
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prelinger
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Re: Film Strip collections |
Is PowerPoint multiplatform? I'm a PC user myself, but back when I was on the Amiga (laugh any time you want to...) I always appreciated multiplatform stuff.
As for multimedia software, I've always been a big fan of Scala. It works better on older computers than PowerPoint does and it has a freely distributable player.
I thought that OpenOffice people have some sort of multimedia presentation thingy, don't they?
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FP |
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September 02, 2004 07:57:51am |
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prelinger
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Re: Film Strip collections |
I vote for numbered still images in a ZIP or RAR or STUFFIT or SIT archive. I would use Picavue or ACDSee 3.2 to view them. Anything else would introduce difficulties for someone. Any format requiring any kind of player other than an image viewer is a bad idea, I think.
For image format, I suggest JPG or PNG. There should probably be multiple resolutions to choose from - maybe 640 X 480 at the low end, and something considerably larger for higher-res needs.
In any event, thanks for offering yet another resource -
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